Hi. Don't post much, usually just lurk, but I'm getting antsy and I'd like to know if anyone else is too.

A long time ago Gentoo PPC developers joined the metapkg (http://metapkg.org) project and promised us a fully functional version of portage on OSX. I was excited to hear that at the time, despite the fact that I only owned a PC, running, of course, Gentoo Linux. I had dreams of making the Mac switch and when the iBook G4 models debuted with Panther, I was sold. I love Panther, and I also love Linux, but I have enough PCs running them that I'd rather stay with Apple's rock solid OS. I do, however, still love Portage, and think it would be a Good Thing (TM) if we who wish to continue running OSX could have our cake and eat it too. I've tried Fink, and I've tried Darwinports, and to be honest with you, neither are of the same calibur that Portage is.

The developers have long been silent on this project. This post is not merely a plea to the devs to give us an update, but a plea to the users to come forward and show that there is indeed still support for Portage/OSX. So, does anyone else fervently check the Gentoo homepage everyday, praying that the OSX version has been released, or at least hoping for a little news? Anyone?_________________life is just a dream, you know? it's neverending.

So, does anyone else fervently check the Gentoo homepage everyday, praying that the OSX version has been released, or at least hoping for a little news? Anyone?

I do.

Just got myself a 12" iBook G4, and I love it. I'm not installing Gentoo on it until Airport Extreme is supported, so I'm really looking forward to seeing Portage on OSX..._________________Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.

Well, I'm just stuck with Gentoo becouse of the portage system. I can't really live without it. Still, it gives me software that is not really compatible with my hardware. I gave Mac OSX a try with Fink, Apples X11 and KDE, but this gave me a system with too many layers above each other. I couldn't really solve how to replace Quartz and Aqua with X. And furthur this system whould give me a "rootless"-ness, a bunch of software I don't want and a structure that I don't like. And I'm with you; Fink is not near the functionality of Portage at all.

I'm using Gentoo on my old AMD Athlon-900-Desktop and I have a "Titanium"-Powerbook running the "Panther". I was very pleased to read the announcement of Gentoo on Mac OSX "very soon". Because nothing seems to happen, I've emailed one person being mentioned in the announcement in September to get some new informations, but didn't get any reply.

While portage-ng sounds exciting, I believe that it is so far on the horizon at the moment. Also, in the design document there is no explicit mention of OSX, something which troubles me, as it seems the process of translating portage to OSX also involves a significant developer effort in making sure that all included ebuilds will compile and work correctly. Portage-ng seems to be more focussed on a single portage with exacting standards for every platform, and while I sincerely hope that OSX is included in that project, I still wonder whatever happened to the original portage/OSX project._________________life is just a dream, you know? it's neverending.

I too use Gentoo and OSX, but OSX only on my only mac machine. I have tried darwinports (fink sounded WAY too kludgy for my tastes) and it definetly is not near as polished as portage. This post came up when I was doing my checkup on the status of the portage for OSX.

I would be more than happy to work on bringing portage over to OSX, just would like to find out what the hell happened to the original initiative...

I don't know if they want people to upgrade, or if they just don't want to use the ressources required for maintaining multiple versions._________________Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.

Hey everyone, I'm they fella that did the portage port to 10.2.8 last summer. Sorry about all the inactivity and whatnot, been busy with school. But, here's the beef I've pieced together about portage and OSX.

Drobbins told me that he already had some folk working on portage-ng and OSX was tied into that effort.

So as far as I can tell if you want to work on portage-osx or would like to see it happen faster, download your favorite packages and try installing them from source on your respective OSX machines.

I'd suggest checking the fink list first b/c those guys move fast when it comes to providing packages. Heck they've just release Gnome 2.4 for OSX!

But if something in a package breaks, then try fixing it. If you work out a patch, then I would suggest posting it to the gentoo-osx listserv so that it's on record. Or maybe just submit it to the fink crowd for now.

Metapkg is pretty quite as far as I can tell. I'm on the mailing list and the irc channel and it's been frequently silent space. I've been tempted to focus on coordinating that effort, b/c it's going to take a lot of work.

As far as the slowness of this progress is concerned, part of it is that there's just too much work going on for all the developers and we need some help from the community getting things coordinated or going. There are only so many developers but so many feature hungry users. These things take a lot of time. Many of us work in different parts of the world, getting our goals alined and being rigorous takes time, something there's little of, especially when you want to do something like metapkg.

As for myself, I've been busy graduating from college. Now that I'm through, I've put myself to the task of helping out with sandbox. B/c of the BSD similarities that darwin/OSX have, I've been assisting g2boojum's gentoo-bsd project.

Last night I commited some darwin/osx patches into his sandbox repo and I autoconfed/maked sandbox. That's some good news.

So something is happening. It's just going to take some more time. Please continue to be patient. OSX and darwin haven't been forgotten.

Seriously, folks - this forum IS the support - at least when jerks like me aren't falling over laughing. I have a 10.3.2 machine and some free time - I'll see if I can get it up and limping (running seems too much tro hope for, at this point...)_________________Osmos.org
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Okay - got it syncing in 10.3.2:
1. Copy the .py files to System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages
2. Change line one of /bin/emerge to read:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.3

3. Have at it!

For the record, I have Mac-Python (Panther) installed, and I moved the entire source tree to /usr/lib/portage, instead of symlinking it. I'll mention other solutions/hacks as I get there._________________Osmos.org
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Hello,
I essentially followed the directions with the two or three tweaks mentioned above, but I used portage-2.0.50-r1. It appeared to me that all the relevant files were part of the current Portage tarball, so... *shrug* It works reasonably well. I've been careful to avoid emerging anything that would overwrite native OSX files. Unfortunately that limits what one can install. It is currently a dirty hack, we need to install into an alternate tree a la Fink.
I'm glad you people starting doing something with it - you finally got me off my seat. I'll be looking at the code now.
BTW, here's what I have successfully installed:
dev-util/dialog
app-portage/gentoolkit
media-libs/libsdl
dev-util/ccache
net-analyzer/nmap
app-editors/nano
app-misc/screen
net-www/lynx

In some cases the USE flags matter and will trip-you-up. BTW, don't forget to do a --nodeps. Manually install the dependencies you can. PLEASE make sure not to install anything that over-writes OSX native files - you won't be happy. Remember that in many cases it is BSD vs. GNU, and the apps don't always act the same.